Surface pre-melting and surface flattening of Bi nanofilms on Si(1 1 1)-7 × 7

Surface Science

Volumn 547, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Yaginuma, S ^a   Nagao, T ^a,b   Sadowski, J T ^a   Pucci, A ^a,c   Fujikawa, Y ^a   Sakurai, T ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bismuth; Low energy electron diffraction (LEED); Metallic films; Surface melting; Surface structure, morphology, roughness, and topography; Surface thermodynamics (including phase transitions)

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; LOW ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; MELTING; METALLIC FILMS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SILICON; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

SURFACE FLATTENING;

SURFACE PHENOMENA;

EID: 0344121144     PISSN: 00396028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2003.10.015     Document Type: Article

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